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AI Chips, Anyone? On Surging Markets and Spectacular Exits
March 11, 2019: Nvidia buys Mellanox for $6.9b The deal is the second largest ever acquisition in the Israeli high tech industry December 16, 2019: Intel Confirms $2 Billion Habana Labs Acquisition The deal marks Intel’s second-largest acquisition of an … Continue reading
99 Predictions About AI in 2020
“Q: How worried do you think we humans should be that machines will take our jobs? A: It depends what role machine intelligence will play. Machine intelligence in some cases will be useful for solving problems, such as translation. But … Continue reading
Las Vegas Most Cyber Insecure US Metro
Source: Cybersecurity in the City: Where Small Businesses Are Most Vulnerable to Attack
Online Advertising Revenues Expected to Grow by $60 Billion between 2019 and 2024
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Aging and Automation
The “under-appreciated” workforce — experienced workers with long tenures at their companies, aged 50 and above — are estimated to have contributed $7.6 trillion to U.S. economic activity in 2015, set to jump to over $13.5 trillion by 2032, according … Continue reading
Extra! Extra! 42 Additional 2020 Cybersecurity Predictions
From disrupting elections to targeted ransomware to privacy regulations to deepfakes and malevolent AI, 141 cybersecurity predictions for 2020 did not exhaust the subject so here are additional 42 from senior cybersecurity executives. Read more here
Robot Augmentation
You may have heard “AI” explained as “augmented intelligence,” i.e.., robots supporting or enhancing human intelligence. Now, researchers at Amazon are experimenting with robot augmentation: “…researchers at Amazon’s Alexa AI division developed a framework that endows agents with the ability … Continue reading
The Accelerating Complexity of AI Models
“The number of parameters in a neural network model is actually increasing on the order of 10x year on year. This is an exponential that I’ve never seen before and it’s something that is incredibly fast and outpaces basically every … Continue reading
The Digital Transformation of Recorded Music
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Cybersecurity 2020 Predictions
Read more here Serial cybersecurity entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer said in a 2005 interview that cybersecurity is “a bit like Alice in Wonderland” where you run as fast as you can only to stay in place. In 2020, to paraphrase the … Continue reading